Paper vessel.



G. T. BLOOMBR.

PAPER VESSEL. APPLIUATION'PILED MAY12,1911.

1,004,55 1. Patented Oct. 1911.

W: es- Z CHARLES T. BLOOMER, F NEWARK, NEW YORK.

PAPER vsssnn Specification 0! Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 3, 1911.

Application filed May 12, 1811, Serial No. 626,817.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES T. BLOOMEB, a. citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Wayne and State I 6 of New York, have invented a new and use andpractical manner to simplify and iinprove the mode of fastening the cover flaps,

-wherehy to secure an effective closing and sealing of the vecl, and in a way that will preclude esca e of the contents when shaken.

' 1'6 With the a love and other objects in view,

as will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel manner of sealin the cover flaps of a paper vessel, as wil be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying druwin s: Figure 1 is a plan view of the blank. *ig. 2 is a perspective view of the vessel, with the coveriflaps open. Fig. 3 is :1 fragmentary detail perspective view.

The vessel is constructed from a sheet of suitable paper, and is cut and creased to provide when folded, a. bottom 1, four fiat sides 2, two folded sides 3, 4, 5 and 6, two

80 inner cover flaps 7 and 8, and two outer cover flaps 9 and 10.

The side 6 is provided at each side of its central line with an outstanding tab 11 and 12 respectively, and each of which is provided with an elongated slot 13, the two slots being arranged to register when the blank is folded to vessel form, as shown in Fig. 2, and to receive a flexible tongue 14, preferably of tin that is clenched to the inner surface of the cover flap 10, the

tongue being bent over the upper edges of the two tabs and thence downward against the inner face of the tab 11, thus securely holding the outer cover flaps positioned over the inner flaps.

It will be seen from the foregoing description that in order to secure the object sought, it will only be necessary to provide the orificed tubs, and to have these upstanding in one direction in order to receive and form 60 an effective holding means for a, tongue, so that the inclusion of the resent improvements will not add materia ll to the cost of production of the pails, whi e a more effective fastening means is provided. 65

In order to hold the folded sides together, a hail 15 is provided which passes through the folded sides and ma or may not pass through two of the straightsides, and has its ends bent at an angle thereto, to provide sto )S.

claim:

A paper vessel having one of its sides provided with upstanding orificed tabs, 9. pair of inner cover flaps foldable over each other in one direction, a pair of outer cover flaps fold le over each other in an opposite direction, .md a flexible tongue clenched to the inner side of one of the outer cover flaps and arranged to be inserted through the ore ficcd tabs and bent over and around the some.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES T. BLOOMER.

Witnesses Lewis A. GILBERT, Josern GILBERT. 

